William Henry Gaston (October 25, 1840 – January 24, 1927) was an early Dallas, Texas financier and land developer[1] William H. Gaston was born near Prairie Bluff, Alabama on October 25, 1840.

When he was discharged in June 1865, Gaston returned to farming in Anderson County, Texas.

After his first wife died in 1867, he married her sister the next year, and not long after moved to Dallas with $20,000 in gold, the source of which is contested.

[4] In 1872, Gaston began promoting a 40 acre tract east of Dallas's existing boundaries for settlement.

He died at his son's home in Dallas on January 24, 1927, and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery.